Caretakers is a visual examination of my relationship to the natural world and the place we allow nature to occupy in our western culture. Caretakers raises questions about our interdependence with nature. In this series, the depiction of a landscape is paired with a landscape image that includes one or more human figures. Forming a diptych, the two images formulate a relationship of the figures to the land. The landscape images void of figures hardly reveal any traces of human activity. They stir our memory of a time before an all-encompassing human interference with the natural world. Completing the image pair are landscapes into which people with diverse intent enter, only to leave the outcome of their potential actions suspended. These figures are superimposed rather than immersed into the landscape. They are shown in the moment just before leaving their marks on the landscape in the form of resource extraction, leisure and development.